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Tyler Howard Winklevoss (born August 21, 1981) is an American rower and entrepreneur. He competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics with his identical twin brother and rowing partner, Cameron Winklevoss. Winklevoss co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with his brother Cameron and a Harvard classmate of theirs, Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the popular social networking service site Facebook. ==Early life and education== Tyler Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is the son of Carol (née Leonard) and Howard Winklevoss,〔http://www.rockawave.com/news/2007-02-09/obits〕 a professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the author of (''Pension Mathematics With Numerical Illustrations'' ), and founder of (Winklevoss Consultants ) and (Winklevoss Technologies ). Winklevoss attended Greenwich Country Day School and graduated from the Brunswick School. Winklevoss studied classical piano for 12 years, beginning at age 6. He studied Latin and Ancient Greek in high school. During his junior year, he and his twin brother Cameron founded the crew program. He matriculated to Harvard College in 2000 and majored in economics, earning an A.B. and graduating in 2004. At Harvard, he was a member of the men's varsity crew, the Porcellian Club and the Hasty Pudding Club. In 2009, Winklevoss began graduate business study at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and completed an MBA in 2010. While at Oxford, he was a member of Christ Church, an Oxford Blue, and rowed in the Blue Boat in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tyler Winklevoss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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